Does plastic make us sick? Contact with microplastics may lead to immune cell death.
Amsterdam, October 25, 2019 – When immune cells attack microplastics, the immune cells die. Nienke Vrisekoop, assistant professor at UMC […]
Amsterdam, October 25, 2019 – When immune cells attack microplastics, the immune cells die. Nienke Vrisekoop, assistant professor at UMC […]
Amsterdam, 25 October 2019 – Coca-Cola once again proves to be the world’s largest plastic polluter. Just like in 2018, […]
In December 2019 the men of Team Ocean 5 will participate in the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge. This race is […]
Carl Plasschaert heard about the Talisker Whisky Ocean Challenge for the first time in January 2018. In December 2019, he […]
In Dutch talk show Radar of 7 October, our director Maria Westerbos said to presenter Antoinette Hertsenberg: ‘Fleece? No way, […]
Amsterdam, 22 October 2019 – An average household generates about twenty kilos of domestic dust a year. It is estimated […]
Amsterdam, 18 October 2019. Plastics must also comply with the rules for chemical substances. Environmental organizations have stated this in […]
Amsterdam, October 16th, 2019 – The much-praised method of lifecycle analysis (LCA) is regularly misused in the discussion surrounding plastic […]
Amsterdam, 12 October 2019 – The Plastic Soup Foundation congratulates Dirk Groot, a.k.a. the Zwerfinator, for achieving the first place […]
Amsterdam, 11 October 2019 – In 2025, Coca-Cola Europe will take back as many bottles and cans as it sells. […]
By the end of this year, there should be a global plastic treaty that will stop plastic pollution of our planet. To achieve this, the United Nations environment department is organising the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee on Plastic Pollution negotiations. The 4th round, INC4, took place in Ottawa Canada. The new plastics treaty is considered one of the most important environmental agreements made since the Paris climate accords in 2015. The stakes are high and that was evident in Ottawa.
Eighty-five per cent of citizens want single-use plastic packaging to disappear completely. This is according to new research by Ipsos commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Plastic Free Foundation. Entrepreneurs who abandon packaging or make it more sustainable seem to have tapped into a goldmine – but part of the business community is still deaf and dumb. ‘People are getting fed up with all the plastic in the supermarket.’
March 15 2024 That’s what readers of news site nu.nl on their comment platform Nujij were wondering. In a recent […]
The first Impact Fair is Europe’s largest Impact Experience. An interactive ‘immersive’ experience of impactful examples.